henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (06/18/83)
Graphics users take note. The Versatec has run out of paper, and we don't plan to order more because we intended to decommission the thing soon anyway. (We had thought the paper would last until then.) As a replacement for it, plotting of similar quality is now available on the Sanders. Just use "splot" instead of "vcplot" to send stuff to be plotted. The one disadvantage of plotting on the Sanders is that it is rather slower than the Versatec was. It is possible to plot much more quickly on the Sanders at the cost of somewhat poorer output quality, and we intend to make this capability available to graphics users quite shortly. (It's not quite ready because we hadn't expected to need it quite so soon.) Let us know what you think of the output quality of Sanders plotting. The actual dots-per-inch resolution is about the same, but the dots join better and it seems to us that the result looks better. There is also the advantage that the Sanders prints on ordinary paper, not the funny stinky stuff the Versatec uses.